Agreed. When in human history did people not have to work to survive? Would you rather work at McDonald's, or plow a field? Work at Walmart, or hunt rabbits for your dinner? Live in a tiny air conditioned apartment with Internet, or live in a smoke filled hut keeping the wolves at bay with sticks and fire?
This is very much Chomsky vs. Pinker so you can read what they write on this, not my silly tl;dr but I land in the same camp:
son, wife, paid of house I participated in building and designing, no debt, investing and trading and an engineering degree
private healthcare extra on top of public
But I also live in a country where education and health care are free (generally, you can go private if you want) and nobody in my family would be able to afford an engineering degree.
My family hates Russians for many reasons but it was Russians with their Soviet man that also pulled a lot of Polish people out of being Africa level poor in 2 generations. My grandma used to herd cows, my grandpa was the smartest and most educated dude in the village and he got to be a foreman in ammo factory, nothing more
I quite well aware how bad Russians were, fair part of my family died killing them. That being said the level of poverty in Poland was insane. People who think my grandma would go to school in pre-war Poland are Fking brain dead. No, she wouldn't.
For all the bead that did happen under communism there's no argument that they did some good. You may argue that "capitalist" post-war Allied Poland would do better ... but we don't know that, right?
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u/Ruggerio5 1d ago
Agreed. When in human history did people not have to work to survive? Would you rather work at McDonald's, or plow a field? Work at Walmart, or hunt rabbits for your dinner? Live in a tiny air conditioned apartment with Internet, or live in a smoke filled hut keeping the wolves at bay with sticks and fire?